| A | B |
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| Characterization | The act of creating or developing a character |
| Direct characterization | A writer simply states a character’s traits |
| Indirect characterization | A character is revealed through one of the following means: 1)words, thoughts, or actions of the character 2)descriptions of the character’s appearance or background 3)what other characters say about the character 4)the ways in which other characters react to the character |
| Meter | A poem’s rhythmical pattern determined by the number and types of stresses or beats in each line |
| Mood | The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage, or atmosphere |
| Onomatopoeia | The use of words that imitate sounds |
| Assonance | The repetition of vowel sounds in conjunction with dissimilar consonant sounds |
| Blank verse | Poetry written in unrhymed iambic pentameter |
| Consonance | The repetition of similar final consonant sounds at the ends of words or accented syllables |
